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Just got email from SSA informing me that I can check my statement online and “Now that you can access your Statement instantly and anytime online, we will not automatically send one by mail.” I wonder if they’re notifying any of the millions of people who do not access SSA online.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Teachers get capped at $300 for tax write-offs. Elon gets $11 Billion. #TaxTheRich

submitted 8 hours ago • 19 comments

On Monday, IMLS (Institute for Library and Museum Services) staff were placed on administrative leave following the Trump Administration’s Executive Order, which eliminated federal funding for libraries. Take action today! www.everylibrary.org/statement_im... via @everylibrary.bsky.social

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

This! charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/you-are-no...

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Must-see PBS American Experience episode on this - a heartbreaking, infuriating, critically important documentary. www.dailymotion.com/video/x1itk1p Share this w everyone you can persuade to watch it. Project 2025 wants to bring these days back. www.americanprogress.org/article/proj... Please RT.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Instead of DEI, we have MEI - Mediocrity, Expulsion, and Incompetence.

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Important note about this breakthrough: Literally would not exist without the kind of Federal support the current administration is slashing. Took 15+ years of research at a federal lab (Lawrence Berkeley) to get this to a point at which private enterprise could take over and make these at scale.

submitted 11 days ago • 96 comments

Please join me in submitting a letter to the editors of your local papers to help us spread the word about saving federal funding for libraries. action.everylibrary.org/lteimls2025 Follow @everylibrary.bsky.social for more!

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Public libraries are the most democratic public organizations in the country. Take action today, to save libraries, and literacy in America. Don’t let the MAGAts restrict these vital services available to all. action.everylibrary.org/saveimls2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social

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“People are doing things.” Have you dropped in yet on the 24-hour livestream of Black leaders giving the “State of the People”? This is an extraordinary gathering of leaders, activists and journalists. Will go on until midnight tonight. Get on it! stateofthepeople.media

submitted 29 days ago • 99 comments

He's right about this. Boycott the speech, don't go at all. Heckling accomplishes nothing and plays right into his hands. He'll love it.

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Taking action is the remedy for despair.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Pass it on & on & on

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 33 days ago • 298 comments

Democrats should say they’ll vote for Rick Scott’s bill if he can identify more Medicaid fraud than he committed.

submitted 35 days ago • 10 comments

One of the more openly corrupt lobbying actions in the last two decades. Infuriating.

submitted 45 days ago • 5 comments

The quality of the reporting on this has been disappointing, to say the least, with only the most basic understanding of what the National Archives does. This is bigger than a little spat with a small agency. bit.ly/3Ex744a follow @everylibrary.bsky.social to stay informed!

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I mean, what did USAID ever do to Elon Musk??? Oh. the.ink/p/usaid-foug...

submitted 58 days ago • 20 comments

@schiff.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

It’s pretty insane that a private citizen can come in, hijack federal government servers, fire people, and steal their PII.

submitted 60 days ago • 1765 comments

Friends/community will get you through times of no money. Money will not get you through times of no friends.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Tulsi Gabbard's confirmation hearing in the Senate will take place on Thursday, and it's important every American sees this conversation of hers with Tucker Carlson. Tulsi Gabbard is Putin's puppet.

submitted 65 days ago • 333 comments

I wish people would stop saying "we've been through this before" McCarthy didn't have 24-hour news channels George Wallace didn't own a social media site This is different, like, really different

submitted 63 days ago • 3 comments

I'm a @motherjones.com reporter looking to speak with federal employees who received the "Fork in the Road" memo yesterday. Please talk to me about the chaos & fear in your departments. Anonymity can be provided. Email me at avesoulis@cir.org. Signal me at abbyvesoulis[dot]09

submitted 63 days ago • 12 comments

Can someone explain to me why Smith’s report wasn’t released during Biden’s term and why Garland never charged Trump? Two years should have been sufficient to build the case, especially with the treason of the stolen classified docs. The failure to hold him accountable is why we’re in crisis now.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

For all the good legislation that passed during Biden’s term, his legacy is the disastrous appointment of Merrick Garland as A.G. Trump was not held accountable for his crimes, and the current chaos is the result. We needed a strong prosecutor, not a procedurally oriented judge.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including: - Holocaust Remembrance Day - MLK Day - Juneteenth

submitted 63 days ago • 878 comments